[Yoshi63]

I have a lot of things I can say about this, but none of your questions are really answer-able without following them with and "except", "however", "but"...

meh, i can try to make a few generalized comments:

The length of blind levels shouldn't really affect your starting requirements too much. What is much more important, is your stack compared to the blinds. If you start with 1000 chips and 10/20 blinds, you should be opening pots a bit looser. If you start with 10,000 chips and the same 10/20 blinds, you'll want to be much tighter than the previous example in opening pots. However, in the 10k starting stack example, you can be more liberal with seeing flops in position (esp with good drawing hands such as 87s). So this is one of many exceptions of when you'll play looser with a deepstack.

Once the 10k starting stack tournament hits the 100/200 blind levels, your strategy should be very similar to how you started the 1000 tournament at 10/20 blinds (assuming most of your opponents still have a stack close to 10k).

Theoretically the length between blind increases shouldn't affect your strategy much, although a faster structure should lean towards loosening a bit compared to a slower structure.